Awakening Retreats
The next Awakening
Retreat is
November 7, 8, 9, 2008
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here to register 
This
is an opportunity for college students to be connected with God and their
faith tradition. At this retreat, students experience in a personal way
the invitation to discipleship in a college-oriented context. And on the
most, this retreat is student-led in collaboration with the pastoral staff
at CCM. Participants have a
personal weekend with God in the middle of the semester.
Have a personal time for prayers and participate in a collective
prayer with peers. Listen to
fellow students share their life experiences and faith journey. Hang out
with other college students and build up a faith community of the kingdom
of God. Learn and develop skills for leadership in a faith community.
Awakening Retreat
takes place
every semester. For more information, call 417.865.0802.
Busy Student Retreat
The
busy student retreat is design for students to have a personal experience
with God in the context of their school
schedule. It is, on the most part, design by individual retreatants
in the context of their daily schedule. It is a time for a spiritual
inventory. It is a time to
reconnect with God and renew the consciousnesses of God’s presence in
your life. It is a one and one
encounter with God with the help of a
moderator. Busy student
retreat achieves companionship with God in the whole experiences of
college life. It rejuvenates
the body and the spiritual.
Busy Student Retreat is every semester. Check the Calendar and Sunday Bulletins for announcement.
Or for more details , call 417.865.0802.
Catholicism 101
The
Catholicism 101 Program is to help college students deepened the faith
they received at Baptism and to engage this faith with the challenges of
modern life so as to refresh and reaffirmed this faith . To learn the
church’s teachings and make these teachings
part of our lives. In this era
of relativism and individualism, its worthwhile to engage our faith with
these modern realities and remain informed of God’s presence in the
world through the teachings of the church. This program helps college
students to listen to the Magistarium of the church in issues that affect
our faith. Issues that interest college students are chosen and discussed,
which deepen their faith and renew their belief in God.
Men's and Women's Groups
A
gathering of college students to
reflect about their faith, their life in college and the prospect of the
future. It is a peer faith-based network, where students draw courage,
support and hope from each other. Students
discuss their faith, encourage each other and empower each other.
Students pray together, reflect on scripture and on the teachings
of the church in the context of their life experiences.
Student participation and leadership is fostered, as they strive to
gain the skills that will enhance their chances of influencing the world
as people of faith.
Christian Life Communities
CLC
is the basic church community. In
CLC we reflect upon our call to discipleship and the mission entrusted to
us through our baptism. It is
at this gathering that the life of the spirit is discussed and nourished.
CLC on campus gives college students the opportunity to build their
faith and strengthen their belief for adult life in their parish
community. CLC gives college students a forum to discuss their life
experiences and listen to others story as a believing community.
Students foster the community life of the church, and by a life of
prayer and Bible reflection, support each other as college students.
Lectio Divina
This
is an opportunity to pray with scripture.
Lectio Divina gives college students to enter into a conversation
with God. In Lectio Divina,
God addresses Us personally in
the context of lived experiences. This
exercise in scriptural reading
hope to introduce college students to a way of reading scripture that
guide them to become characters
in the storyline. It
personalizes the scriptural text and makes God and us
conversational partners. God’s
words are alive and active. When God speaks to us through the exercise of
Lectio Divina, it calls us to
action. Lectio Divina is a way of reading
and listening to scripture the leads to a way of living and doing the word
of God.
Marriage Prep
Prepares engaged couples to celebrate the sacrament of Marriage in the Catholic Church. In Marriage Prep, couples receive pastoral guidance in order to explore together the feelings and values they cherish. The experience of Marriage Prep. gives couples the opportunity to welcome God into their married life and allow faith and belief to help shape their married life.
Sacrament of Penance
CCM
serves most importantly, the spiritual needs of students.
Repentance and conversion are the Christian tradition. When human
weakness gets the best of us, we, as a result of that fall short of
God’s grace and glory and in need of repentance and right relationship
with God. CCM provides students the opportunity for reconciliation and
students are encouraged to take the opportunity for spiritual direction,
counseling and accompaniment. The
social pressure of college life is real and obvious, which could weaken
the energy for academic activities and deny us the opportunity for genuine
love and relationship with others. College students are encouraged to
participate in the sacrament of reconciliation and spiritual direction.
Confessions are heard weekly at CCM and Spiritual Direction by appointment during weekday. Call 417. 865.0802 for details.
R.C.I.A.
To prepare those who “after hearing the mystery of Christ proclaimed, consciously and freely seek the living God and enter the way of faith and conversion as the Holy Spirit opens their heart.” RCIA is a process of faith and spiritual formation by which an individual is freely initiated into the Body of Christ, the Church. Through this process, we prepare college students who wish to follow Christ according to Roman Catholic tradition to join the community by receiving the sacraments of initiation.
Rosary Group
A time
for prayer is an awesome time with God. For college students, it is a time
to get rejuvenated and refreshed. Come join other college students and
pray the rosary. While praying
the Rosary, we have Mary, the Mother of the Church, as a companion, who
prays with us o God. As we a
caught up with our academic load, praying
the Rosary become for us a time to reflect on the mysteries of
Christ, which is the mystery of our salvation.
And we are able to remember Christ with Mary, conform our lives to
Christ and proclaim Christ with Mary.
Through the Rosary we are able to build a life of prayer and a
spiritual attitude as a pilgrim people.
We pray the Rosary Daily, at 11:40 a.m.
Alternate Spring Break
In the past we have taken students to work in a Claretian parish in the inner city of Chicago. However, this year Spring Break coincided with Holy Week and Easter Week, making it impossible to perform this ministry in 2008. Still in the planning stages for Spring, 2009.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Adoration
to the Blessed Sacrament is an ancient devotion to Jesus Present in the
Eucharist. It is a time of
prayer with Jesus. Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament is a devotion which
gives college students the opportunity to reflect on the humanity of Jesus
and learn from Jesus who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
During this time of Benediction, student could undertake a personal
inventory of their lives in
the light of our Christian discipleships.